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There is considerable complaint about the steps at Nichols Street, from Centre to Second streets. Not once in any stormy weather have the steps been fit to use, for the four landings between the flights are always muddy and cannot handily be used without ruining the clothes. Residents of that section intend taking the matter before council and have them put a concrete landing between the flights.

75 years ago — 1942

Pottsville is again free of contagion, according to a report by Health Officer Huntzinger. Since early February, there has been one case of contagion reported, that being a mild case of chicken pox.

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Mrs. William Brobst and Mrs. Charles Roberts of this city went to Philadelphia to see the flower show.

A shortage of the right kind of doctor is causing hundreds of Schuylkill County women to seek care outside the county or wait in the crowded offices of overworked doctors. That picture is painted by Dr. Joseph T. Marconis, vice president of medical affairs at Pottsville Hospital and Warne Clinic. For the past two years, Marconis has been on a personal crusade, not only to recruit obstetrician/gynecologists but to reverse a national shortage that is magnified in this county and many other rural areas across the nation, he said.

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